History classrooms present a unique dilemma. How do we offer our students a basic understanding of key events and facts, while inviting them to see the past not as a rote list of names and dates, but as the fascinating, conflicted prelude to their lives today? How do we teach our students to think like historians? As scholars and teachers who go into the classroom every day, we know these challenges well and have composed the sixth edition of this work to help instructors meet them.

This combined edition includes 942 pages of the work itself, 21 pages of documents, an 8 page appendix, and a 123 page index.

Transformations of North America, 1450-1700 -- British North Amerca and the Atlantic World, 1660-1763 -- Revolution and republican culture, 1763-1820 -- Overlapping revolutions, 1800-1860 -- Creating and preserving a continent nation, 1844-1877 -- Industrializing America: upheavals and experiments, 1877-1917 -- Domestic and global challenges, 1890-1945 -- THe modern state and the age of liberalism, 1945-1980 --Global capitalim and the end of the American century, 1980 to the present.